Interesting idea! I wonder if a tool could then compose facts that are related to each other into articles automatically? You could have a database of facts where their URLs are their IDs, and then tags or metadata of those facts that could let you cluster them together automatically. For example several facts could be tagged with #BattleOfYorktown, such as the date, opposing sides, notable events, etc.. and a tool like gpt-3 could be used to compose articles from those facts. 

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Edd Haigh

On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 at 18:04, Adam Sobieski <adamsobieski@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hello. The following ideas about URL-addressable statements and clusters of statements (e.g. paraphrase sets or clusters) are relevant to a recent Wikifact project proposal, could be relevant to a recent Wikipragmatica project proposal, and, hopefully, are relevant and interesting to Wikidata and Abstract Wikipedia.

 

Each statement, claim, or fact could have a URL. Each cluster of paraphrases could have a URL.

 

Statements, claims, or facts could have URL’s, for instance https://www.wikifact.org/statements/33DCF305-3A4D-4024-9AD7-CCB1A29054E2 .

 

Clusters of paraphrases could have URL’s, for instance https://www.wikifact.org/clusters/D006871E-24A6-428F-BD1F-D20C3C7B7685 .

 

The URL for an individual statement, claim, or fact could, while optionally providing data, redirect to a URL for the paraphrase cluster which contains it. This could convenience processes of semi-automated, collaborative paraphrasing. That is, in the event of an erroneous paraphrasing, editors or software tools could edit a redirect page to re-cluster the individual statement, claim, or fact to an updated cluster of paraphrases. At the URL for a paraphrase cluster could be a human-editable sequence of explained annotations about a statement, claim, or fact.

 

The emergent feature of URL-addressability could convenience Web-based communication about statements, claims, and facts. End-users would be able to share hyperlinks to fact-checking articles about individual statements, claims, or facts. This could facilitate a number of other, related technologies.

 

Also interestingly, statement patterns could be expressed and these patterns could be utilized via URL query strings. Nouns or noun phrases could be provided as arguments. That is, arguments for thematic relations could be provided utilizing Wikidata lexemes and entities.

 

https://www.wikifact.org/patterns/293FCD5D-27A7-498A-81C3-C78EF0F9D9A2?agent=Q42&patient=Q89 could represent a set of statements expressing that “Douglas Adams ate an apple.”

 

 

Best regards,

Adam Sobieski

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